The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

It's funny, but... you're sort of a moving target for fortune, and you never know when it will befall you.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

The trouble is, you can't properly present something you don't believe in.

An undisturbed river is as perfect as we will ever know, every refractive slide of cold water a glimpse of eternity.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

To me, no painter has ever quite understood the light, the distances, the aboriginal ghostliness of the American West as well as Maynard Dixon. The great mood of his work is solitude, the effect of land and space on people. While his work stands perfectly well on its claims to beauty, it offers a spiritual view of the West indispensable to anyone who would understand it.